John H. Alcock

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/21/2015 at 11:17:11

Monona County History
1982

The John H. Alcock Family, p 85

Norval Alcock was born July 9, 1801 in Culpeper County, Virginia. He and his young fiancée, Lucy Page, walked to Warren County, Kentucky, where they were married November 7, 1823. Their eldest son, William C. Alcock, was born there in 1824. Norvall was an educated man, active in politics and a Justice of the Peace.

William married Rebecca Ann Allen in Gentry County, Missouri, and their eldest daughter was born there before the family came to Madison County, Iowa. Their second son, John Henry Alcock, was born 29 October 1853.

Kinsman D. Woolf, a farmer and minister of the Christian Union Church in Highland County, Ohio, his wife, Margaret, son Levi and daughter, Melissa, came by covered wagon to Madison County, Iowa. Melissa and John Henry Alcock were married in September 1873. John was a farmer near Winterset when their daughter, Alma, was born December 20, 1874.

In 1882 the family moved to a farm near Onawa, Iowa, where their son, Clarence, was born. Later the family moved into Onawa where Alma attended school. She was secretary of the Methodist Church Sunday School in Onawa for several years prior to her marriage to James Hennum on March 1, 1896.

John and Melissa moved to Sloan after retirement from farming. John helped in his son-in-law’s general store when needed. John died June 13, 1921, and Melissa on August 10, 1941. They are both buried in Sloan Cemetery, Sloan, Iowa. Submitted by Elsie McFarland